Monthly Archives: April 2018

The new metrics in the Liftr Index are on display this week, as changes to the core formula cause dramatic swings in the index scores. In the brand new Global Presence category, Microsoft Azure bats low due to the lack of redundancy in their network. Despite having nearly double the availability regions as AWS, Azure…

Global Presence Now on the Scene The Liftr Index is a live, ever changing tool meant to compare the major cloud providers on a variety of scales. On occasion, the metrics and statistics that make up the Index need to be adjusted to account for new market information as well as to make the tool…

This week’s cloud news round-up focuses a lot on how the International market influences the cloud. Whether it’s Russia’s actions to block a single app from its citizens, a sizable government contract being announced in the United States, or the European Union’s approaching deadline for GDPR compliance, the actions of the government bodies around the…

Cloud Round-Up, Friday, April 13th, 2018 Amazon announced an exciting 250% growth in number of users of its machine learning services, up from last year’s numbers. According to the leading cloud giant, that amounts to tens of thousands of businesses. Despite this, AWS experienced a sight fall in their Liftr Index score due to a…

Cloud Round-Up, Friday, April 6th, 2018 It was an active week for cloud providers on the Liftr Index. Alibaba approved Cappasity for it’s Create@Alibaba Cloud Program. The program facilitates startups usage of free cloud benefits, marketing assistance, and introductions to investors in the Chinese market. Cappasity is a cloud-based platform that allows businesses to generate…

The first week of April 2018 has been a big one for the Cloud. New announcements and products from Alibaba, AWS, and Google Cloud have influenced their standing in the cloud market. Alibaba Approves Cappasity for Create@Alibaba Cloud Chinese cloud giant Alibaba has approved Cappasity for its Create@Alibaba Cloud program. The program focuses on enabling…